Friday   Short version: Bunless cheeseburgers, boiled potatoes, carrot sticks with curry dip Long version: I made extra of the cheeseburgers...

Last month I bought a four-pound bag of pistachios in the shell. Yes, that is a lot of pistachios, but all of my children love them, so we...

We have a contender for the longest-lived cut flower: Carnations in the home stretch. Those three are the only flowers left from the bunch m...

I regret to inform you that I did not get a photo of all the children in their Halloween costumes. Again.  I do have a couple of individual ...

Friday   Short version: Beef stir-fry, rice, strawberry-rhubarb pie with vanilla ice cream Long version: I had pulled out a couple of packag...

I'm sure someone out there is wondering how a family with children handles Halloween a hundred miles from anywhere. The answer, as with ...

Short and sweet* today: If you make brownies or another soft kind of bar cookie for an event, and therefore care about the presentation, cut...